canary
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Wall Street skeptics who long questioned Cliffwater’s growth are now calling it a “canary in the coal mine” and a “turducken” of problems, given its entanglement in other funds.
The word “bird” appears some 20 times in these pages; “canary” also appears frequently, along with one “ostrich” and a few “feathers.”
The small-cap benchmark has been a canary in a coal mine ahead of U.S. recessions, but one also prone to dying of natural causes.
The Purchasing Managers' Indices compiled monthly by S&P Global are the data equivalent of the canary in the coal mine.
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But notice there were canary in the coal mine signals, starting with a huge bearish shooting star in January that incredibly closed 35% off its intramonth high.
From Barron's
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